Tinplate Trackin

The Austin Tinplate Trackers are a club of model train enthusiasts.  I'm not sure where on the hierarchy they rank...somewhere between people who build ships inside bottles and people who paint civil war figurines under one of those giant magnifying glasses with the light around it.  Regardless of how long they have until they evolve in to the internet age, or kiss a girl...Bryce and I took a trip to their open house to play with their toys.  For the event they rented an open storefront downtown and set up some giant train tracks.  For a few bucks, Bryce got to drive one of them for a few minutes...forward, backward, fast, slow, horn, smoke...the works.  Unfortunately we had to come home to our manually powered trains, but hopefully they're boring enough that one day he'll forget about them and actually take an interest in other things like sports or girls or daylight.

Here is Bryce's train

 Bryce dominating the controls

Checking out some freight cars

Utter amazement!